The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
here are eighteen prisoners in Cumberland

There are eighteen prisoners in Cumberland
county Jail.
The farmers of Burlington county, y. J.,
and Bucks county, Pa, will join iii Il Harvest
Home excursion to Cape May on the steam
boat Republic tomorrow.
Bulls Island, in the DeIawar River, in Hun
terdon county, is being extensively improved
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with
a view O making it an excursion point.
one of the most profitable institutions at
Atlantic City is the street car company. The
Times says there are Is cars and they cash
from fifteen to eighty dollars a day each.
The West jersey College of Physicians and
Surgeons, OF camden, have decided not 10 have
a hospital in connection with the college now
that the Cooper Hospital has been opened.
A two-months-old child of Florence Burch,
Of %Bridgeton, was found dead in the bed on
sunday. Its mother had rolled on and smoth
cred the child. Coroner Bellows viewed the
body.
Mr.. Charles X. Landishas sold to ex-Attor-
ney General Brewster 1000 acres of land ON The
Fineland tract. It is not known what Mr..
Brewster proposes to do with his new pur-
chase.
Herman LuptOn, residing near MilIville, was
bitten by "a rattiesnake a few days ago., and it
is thought he viii die. He made Il business of
catching the reptiles and selling them as curl
osities.
The contractors for the extension of the
West Jersey Railroad in Bridgeton have Of
fered employment to all the idle men in that
city. But fifteen responded, although there
are 100 men in the place out of work.
r. LoIillard 81 Co, of Jersey city,, are CON
sidering a proposition to remove n portion OF
their wholesale tobacco business to Mount
Holly and occupy The large cotton-mil for
merly the property of semple a Son.
Elmer English, of Bridgeton, who is now in
jail, attempted to cut his throat on saturday.
His family, it is said, have cast him OH, and
the attempt at suicide was, it is Thought. made
10 excite sympathy and get bailcd ont.
The Mount Holly Water Company has cleanse
ed the reservoir and the supply pipes, this ae-
ton having met the approval of the Board of
Health. 1t is thought that the danger of an
other outbreak of typhoid fever has been re-
dueed TO II minimum.
Charles r. Stewart, living near Harmony,
Cumberland county, last week shot a large
grey eagle measuring eight feet from tip to
tip. 1t was in the field eating n dead sheep
and was shot Mt a distance of $50 feet. 1t viii
be stuffed ana mounted.
Just across the railroad from the plant of
the Rio Grande sugar company, in Cape MAY
county, another and smaller works have been
erected. This one is understood 20 be under
the patronage of the general government. and
is Ia be conducted upon a much more econom-
ical scale than the old one.
The horse disease Is spreading along the
coast counties. In Middle township. Cape
May county, several horses have died, while
in the vicinity of Tuckerton. Burlington
county, twelve animals have recently died.
The disease is declared to be spinal meningi-
It's, and The State Board of Health has been
called upon to investigate the matter.
The authorities of B~ridgeton are pushing
the key and social clubs and the parties who
supply them with hqnor. j. T.. Shores, a cigar
dealer who rented an apartment ON his premi-
ses to one of these clubs, was on Tuesday, for
the second time, convicted of selling liquor
without IA license, and fined by the Mayor $50
and costs. VIM. A. Carrie was also fined s26and
costs, on a similar charge, his first offense-
The announcement is mace that a number
of Philadelphia capitalists have formed "A syn
dictate TO build an elevated gravity road from
the inlet at Atlantic City down along the beach
to the southern end of fhe island. Ii is propos-
ed to 50 construct the road that the round trip
from the inlet can he made i'll thirty-iye min
utes. Application for permission 10 build viii
be made ut the next meeting of the Atlantic
City Councils, aud if the project shall be al
lowed work will be begnnat once. The road Is
to be called the Atlantic City Belt Line, and its
projectors expect TO complete it by june ISIS
Thirty-six delegates, representing the Pro
hibition party Of Camden county, met at Tenn
peranee Hall. Camden, Friday afternoon and
nominated "A ticket for the fall election. W.
If. Nicholson, of ~Haddonfield, was elected
Chairman, and Charles j. Heinrich, of the Sec
ond ward, Camden, Secretary. The following
ticket was nominated unanimously: State
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ID. Horner, stockton township; Surrogate, c.
;. Bntddock. Haddonfield; Coroners-First dis
trict, DR.. Louis natton, Fourth ward; second
district, John II. Large; Third district, Hiram
Budd. The Third district delegates met after
the Convention adjourned and nominated d..
c. Morgan, of Blaekwood, for Assembly.